Her
father was distinctly irascible, and disposed more than ever to hide away among
the petrological things—the study was turned out. He
sells his daughter to a geisha or a sing-song master, and the girl is rented out
until the debt is paid. Is it so, Annabel?”
“I did not know,” she faltered, “anything about you. ‘Well, I can see you won’t let it alone, so what do you
propose to do about the wench?’
‘I’ll die before I let it alone,’ Gerald vowed. I would sooner see you in a ’bus
again. There was something about their
greeting and the tone of Annabel’s exclamation which puzzled her. Why are you doing all this?’
To his surprise, Melusine relaxed back, emitting a laugh that sounded perfectly
genuine. In fact, one of them was
downright sceptical. Everything had stayed the same during the centuries. ”
“You have not told me yet,” Annabel said, “how it is that you have dared to
personate me. In the retrospect she was amazed to think how things had gone to pieces, for at
the outset she had been quite prepared to go home again upon terms.
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